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Creating tabbed admin interfaces in Drupal using views

on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 9:54pm

Recently I tried creating a tabbed admin interface in Views - similar to the Content view where 3 tabs exist: Content, Commments, Media. It took a bit of futzing and reading, but ultimately found this:

  1. create page with path "parent" and with content that you would normally have for default tab, don't set up menu settings
  2. create page with path "parent/child1" and with content that you would normally have for default tab (SAME as "parent"), set it to be default tab and tell views Parent menu item: Already exists
  3. create page with path "parent/child2" and with content you want, set it to be menu

What is Drupal?

on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 2:11pm

If you are not sure what Drupal is, or how you can benefit from using it, this video will answer your questions...

Drupal 8 usability wish list

on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:06pm

Drupal has entered it's 8th cycle.  As such, Im regularly asked what I think the top usability issues are. Honestly, this is the first time I've put them down on paper, so this is a bit of a swag, but here it goes...

  1. Connect the dots.  This would be my over-arching theme of Drupal 8.  D7 gave us a hint of this where links to configure and permissions were provided in context after enabling a module, but there's so much more to do.  One example of this is creating a menu item through the menu itself; you have to know the URL in which you want to link to.

Feeds UI review

on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 7:15pm
  • Requires job scheduler module
  • Feeds has no UI, need to enable "Feeds Admin UI"
  • Default config screen is ridiculous. https://skitch.com/jeff.noyes/fjhys/feeds-importers-drupalhead.dev  Create a table that says no feeds, create a local action "+create new importer"
  • New Importer feedback
    • Doesn't use the machine name pattern
    • It's not clear what creating a 'new importer' will do
    • UI is complex enough to requires a "getting started screen"  This screen disappears but could be helpful throughout the config process
    • Users a new interaction pattern
    • Despite help text, I have no idea what "use standard

How to work with the context module

on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 2:02pm

Rob over at Mustardseed media created this create video on the context module. Check it out:

Arranging fields in a Drupal site

on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 10:22am

This is a big step forward. Check out the display sweet module for Drupal. I think this will make Drupal easier for lot's of people.

Display Suite 1.0 screencast from swentel on Vimeo